During conversations in the coalition group EveryWoman, the women's center of the national formation Tindig Pilipinas, it was repeatedly said that aspects of gender should be brought to the fore when formulating effective response and recovery work in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. . Responding to COVID-19 must take into account the social determinants of poor health and well-being.
Designing and Funding a COVID-19 Recovery For All 1
The latest reports from the Department of Budget and Management show that a total of Php 398 billion has been reallocated to respond to the pandemic. With Php 1.1 trillion of fiscal space dedicated to infrastructure (DBM, n.d.c.), the budget seems to ignore this fact.
Livelihood/Supply Chain
By the second half of April, we could see the increasing difficulty of movement by the residents of the Barangay due to the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the area. Mercy had exercised the discipline to keep their shop afloat despite the family's daily needs.
Microfinance: The Poor's Access to Capital and Other Social Services
The Microfinance Council of the Philippines (MCPI), a self-regulatory network of microfinance NGOs, banks and cooperatives in the country, holds annual conferences among its members. First is the revival of the sources of livelihood and closely related to this is food security.
Migration of Filipinos in the Time of COVID: Issues, Challenges and Recommendations
The COVID-19 pandemic is unlike any crisis experienced by OFWs in the past. With the outbreak of the pandemic in the Philippines, OFWs' return home this time was less than welcoming and for many, quite disturbing.
Feminism, the Inescapable: The Experience of the Young Feminists Collective
Because of the overwhelming support YFC received each time it issued a call for donations, it was able to continue to provide assistance to often overlooked populations. When the group heard that survivors of online child sexual exploitation were struggling due to a lack of funds — which originally came from church donations, which disappeared with religious gatherings being banned — it collected donations and aid. financial for food packages. children's clothes and toys. She was also able to send hygiene kits, face masks and Bantay Bastos kits along with food and cash assistance to survivors of gender-based violence.
It was able to send aid in the form of cash assistance to widows and single mothers in Marawi with the help of the Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation. Because what the experience of the Young Feminists Collective proves is that feminism is inevitable - and it will always have the opportunity. The social protection framework that guides the government in its programs is defined by the NEDA Social Development Committee as "policies and programs that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks and improve the social status and rights of the marginalized through livelihoods and work promote and protect.” It should increase the capacity of citizens to manage economic and social risks, such as natural disasters and sudden loss of income.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is responsible for implementing programs to address the situation of the most vulnerable populations and their immediate needs and help them move out of poverty.
Who Protects the Poor during COVID-19?
Since decentralization, the DSWD has implemented most of its programs in collaboration with the Local Social Welfare and Development Offices (LSWDOs). This should prompt the DSWD to prepare a response plan in case the virus spreads in the country. Beneficiary identification was the first stage of the SAP distribution process.
The barangay officials were not willing to be the main implementers of the identification of beneficiaries. As a result, there were differences of opinion between the LGUs and the DSWD on the validity of the list as well as the fund allocation for the city or municipality. A tabletop scenario building exercise could have been conducted by DSWD to develop different responses in the event of the spread of COVID-19 in the Philippines.
The hunger of the most vulnerable families will increase and diseases other than COVID-19 will afflict these families.
Masks4AllPH – Made by the Community, for the Community
The idea to produce face masks for the poor stemmed from the anticipation that everyone would be required to wear these as part of the New Year. Normal, which would further strain the already dwindling incomes of the poor due to job losses. In 2013, the organization was able to access hardware sewing training under the Bottom-Up Planning and Budgeting Program of the Aquino Administration.
And, finally, the star of the group, the Solidarity With Orphans and Widows (SOW) – Payatas. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SOW was one of the groups contracted by the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to manufacture personal protective suits. Recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Memorandum from the Executive Secretary.
9: 72% of Filipinos say their families have received cash assistance from the government since the start of the COVID-19 crisis.
A Feminist COVID-19 Response and Recovery Plan
In the months since 30 January 2020, when the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019 coronavirus disease outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), it has become even more apparent that the pandemic is a test of health care systems (Tanne et al ., 2020;. Using a discrete time compartmental Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Removed (SEIR) model stratified by province, they modeled the spread of COVID-19 in the country and arrived at the estimated health need of the Philippines based on several scenarios of increasing interventions 5 A scenario at the height of the COVID-19 crisis where a COVID-positive person can infect two others (R0=2).
The reasons for this surge have been identified by the majority of the medical community in the Philippines. Workplace safety - referring to the failure of the government to produce and distribute protocols for employers. The science of the proper response to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite being a new virus, is not controversial.
We may well have another wave of critical cases due to the decline in health-seeking behavior for non-COVID-19 conditions and the closure of some services due to the stress the health system is going through.
Rural Health Units Under Stress: The Intersectionality of Peace, Security, Governance and COVID-19
Training of Barangay Local Government Units (BHERTS) and Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Officers (MDRRMOs). When some of these LSIs and ROFs would test positive for COVID-19, it became the responsibility of the RHUs to place them in the CQF, if any, manage them with the limited resources they have, or refer and transport them to government hospital. They also had to create their own database of COVID-19 data, which they had to provide to the provincial government and the Marines on a daily basis.
Health frontliners serving in COVID-19 facilities are considered carriers of the virus and are therefore shunned by the public. Retrieved October 7, 2020, from https://www.csis.org/programs/southeast-asia-program/southeast-asia-covid-19-tracker-0. Interim Guidelines on Networking for Healthcare Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Department of Health Memorandum No.
Regarding the first question, DepEd's The Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan in the Time of COVID-19 (2020a) prescribes four ways to implement education during the pandemic.
Learning in a Time of Pandemic
Web-based learning is also difficult due to the lack of devices (computer, laptop, tablet). The DepEd claims to have distributed more than a million devices across 44,155 schools or 93 percent of the total. Rather, the DepEd chose to hastily produce self-learning modules, without prior review, at the level of the regions and divisions.
DepEd has conveniently blamed the mistakes on the divisions that made them, which obviously does not speak well of the department and its divisions. Instead of (again) reinventing the wheel, DepEd should download videos of the Knowledge Channel (available on YouTube) produced by and aired on the channel whose franchise this government recklessly and baselessly refused to renew) and distribute copies of the videos to communities to share display. DepEd's 2020 budget has 6.5 billion pesos earmarked for the school-based feeding program (Department of Budget and Management, 2020).
The COVID-19 pandemic is also seriously affecting the health and well-being of indigenous peoples.
Dumagat Women Rise
Sa gitna ng isang pandemya, ang mga babaeng mangingisda sa Sierra Madre ay natututo ng maraming mula sa pagtatatag ng isang marketing initiative ng mga kababaihan, para sa mga producer, consumer, para sa lahat. Sa gitna ng enhanced community quarantine: “Kailangan daw ng mga taong-bayan ng pagkain mula sa kabundukan dahil hindi sila makalabas o makapunta sa lahat ng palengke dahil bawal silang lumabas dahil sa pandemya,” pagbabahagi ni Clara. Nakita ito ni Clara at ng kanyang mga kapwa opisyal ng K-GAT bilang isang paraan upang suportahan ang kapwa nila Dumagat at mga residente ng Dela Costa Homes sa Barangka, Marikina—sa gitna mismo ng isang pandemya.
On the eve of their first delivery, they scrambled late into the night for a van that would transport their products. In the wee hours of the morning we were so tired that we lay down on the floor of Dela Costa covered track and leaned against piles of squash and bags of bananas to rest). The need to implement better. systems is what she considers one of the hardest lessons learned in the first months of their marketing venture.
Despite the challenges presented by navigating a marketing startup in the midst of a pandemic, they are determined to pursue livelihoods that feed their land, their people, and people beyond their community.
Feminist Approach to COVID-19 Response and Recovery - Security Sector Governance
Unsurprisingly, he has shown increasing reliance on security sector support in running the government. Furthermore, despite the pandemic's huge impact on the economy, no member of the cabinet's economic cluster sits on the executive body. Certainly, this does not happen automatically by taking off the uniform and assuming a civilian title.
This must be one of the main lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic for the Philippines. The role of the security sector in the response to COVID-19. An opportunity to "build for the better"?. Here are eight ways the security sector can help mitigate the worst effects of the pandemic.
She is a co-founder of the Young Feminists Collective, a member of PILIPINA and the youngest president of EveryWoman.
